The book analyzes the phenomenon of how indigenous
migrants - who escaped social discrimination and economic
exclusion in Mexico - build a well institutionalized
transnational migrant community in the United States. In
this process of self-empowerment, indigenous migrant leaders
use transnational networks on different levels to negotiate
indigenous membership, identity, and opportunities of
political participation. Over the last decades, they were
able to improve living conditions of members in the migrant
community as well as indigenous home communities in Mexico.

Dr. Sascha Krannich works as a researcher at
the Research Center of Siegen University (FoKoS). He focuses
on immigration policies, migration and development.